Excellent! Good explanation, better idea. The qualification using $main:: becomes Perl's "What I tell you three times is true."-- even better since you don't have to tell it the first two times! Conceptually not greatly different from a 'C' cast. Thanks, it will be in the revised version, I am holding off until Monday or so, hoping for additional useful suggestions...

–hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing…it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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